He and I are in a bubble,
I’m muttering desperate magic, prayers,
as if I’m making it go up,
go up
(and in my mind
I lean forward, reinflating, again
and again)
each time it drops.
It’s a beggars chant,
some low monotonic moaning,
making it go up again,
in that room
where the clock has stopped.

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